Episode 146: Ryan Ken
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tuck chats with actor and writer Ryan Ken (they/them). Topics include:
- Why a TikTok can be more useful than a DEI training
- Using fashion strategically as a fat, Black, queer, nonbinary person
- When astrology can be reminiscent of Evangelical Christianity
- Why masculinity, not femininity, felt fragile and delicate as a child
- Plus: classical violin, Last Week Tonight, and moving beyond allyship
This Week in Gender: Ryan's TikTok videos about The New York Times and Beauty & the Beast.
Find Ryan on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram @ryan_ken_acts.
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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Dunder" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Whether you're trans, or queer, or a woman, or a person of color, or really anyone on |
| 0:04.7 | the internet, you've probably had a moment where you worried about getting docs, or having |
| 0:08.6 | your personal information leaked online. |
| 0:11.5 | One good way to lower your risk of doxing is to sign up for a site like DeleteMe, which |
| 0:16.5 | will take all of the time and effort out of scrubbing your personal information from the |
| 0:19.6 | internet. |
| 0:20.6 | I use DeleteMe, and you can join me at joindeleteMe.com slash gender reveal to get 20% off your first |
| 0:26.6 | year that's joineddeleteMe.com slash gender reveal. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to Gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:50.1 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm your host, and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Star. |
| 0:59.3 | Hey everyone, have you all hung in there? |
| 1:07.5 | Welcome to the season 10 finale of Gender reveal. |
| 1:11.3 | I very intentionally saved this conversation for last because I love it so much, and |
| 1:15.9 | I really think that you will too. |
| 1:18.1 | This week on the show we speak with Ryan Ken. |
| 1:20.7 | You might know Ryan from TikTok, but they are also an actor, a writer, a professional |
| 1:25.4 | violin player, an Emmy winner, and so, so much more. |
| 1:30.0 | In this episode, Ryan talks about how fragile masculinity felt to them growing up, and |
| 1:35.2 | who they might have been if they had not been interrupted. |
| 1:38.0 | I've spent a lot of my life wondering, who would I have been if a feminine gesture or |
| 1:44.3 | way of speaking wasn't frightened out of me? |
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